Javeria Hasnain and Jenna Tang join host Brian Gresko to discuss their background and work in translating poetry and fiction. They each share a piece in its original language along with their English translation, and discuss some of their process and decision making in creating the translation.

Javeria Hasnain is a scholar, translator, and poet from Karachi, currently pursuing a doctorate in English at Fordham University. She is the author of the poetry collection SIN and the translator of Sara Shagufta's poetry collection from Urdu, EYES, EYES, EYES.

Jenna Tang is a Taiwanese writer and a translator who translates between Mandarin, French, Spanish, and English. Her translations and essays are published in The Paris Review, Lit Hub, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her translations include wo ...